Bangalore, Feb 1: Manjunath Gopal, a 20-year-old youth was having his breakfast on tuesday morning, when his BSNL landline phone suddenly rang at around 7:30 am. The moment Manjunath lifted the receiver, he got a

"A neighbouring house owner carried out construction and our pillar got bent. the telephone wire came in touch with the 11 kv high tension electric wire, got almost burnt, and high voltage current passed through the telephone wire to Manjunath's house causing this tragedy."

Police is investigating and is in touch with the BCNL and BESCOM (power utility) officials.